President Eisenhower and the Historians
Is the General in Retreat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Broadwater (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-60 |
| Publication date | 1991-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-01-04 |
| OpenAlex | W1967685429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
In a 1962 poll of seventy-five presidential scholars by the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Dwight D. Eisenhower ranked twenty-second among all American presidents. Eisenhower's rating placed him low in the "average" category, alongside the almost forgotten Chester A. Arthur and barely ahead of Andrew Johnson, the only president ever to be impeached. Eight years later, in a survey of members of the Organization of American Historians, Ike climbed to nineteenth in "general prestige," just below the Depression era's Herbert C. Hoover and, once again, just above the embattled Johnson. Yet in the early 1980s, a series of polls placed Eisenhower in or near the presidential top ten-an "above average" if not "near great" chief executive.1 To his enthusiasts, there has since seemed to be no limit to the possibilities presented by the General's apparent resurgence. One of Eisenhower's most effervescent supporters, R. Gordon Hoxie of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, has recently suggested that "more and more Eisenhower's career and his presidency will be compared with those of Washington and Lincoln."2
Depression (economics · Economic history · Economics · Great Depression · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Prestige · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philosophy
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Holding the Line
The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights
Reevaluating Eisenhower
Eisenhower, the President
The Presidential Performance Study
The Declassified Eisenhower
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The Evaluation of Presidents
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Eisenhower and Latin America
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |